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“I judge property myself by its net earning power; that is the only rule I have been able to get.... This whole island [Manhattan] was once bought for a few strings of beads. But now you will find this property valued by its earning power, by its rent power, and that is the way to value a railroad or telegraph.”
Source : "Jay Gould: A Character Sketch" by William T. Stead, in The Review of Reviews. Testimony to the New York Senate Committee on Labor and Education, February 1893.
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“I see my poems as interlinked. No poem gives an answer. It may offer other questions, it may instigate other questions that then become poems.”
Source : "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009. 
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“The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces.”
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“Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.”
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“Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth”
Source : Robert Earl Hayden (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.166, University of Michigan Press
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“Lunch is like, my first real meal of the day. I cannot eat anything in the morning, my body...I can only eat about two hours after I wake up.”
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“Either there is a God or there isn't. Both possibilities are frightening.”
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“Resistance will continue as long as the occupation and aggression continues. There is no recognition of Israel, no matter what the cost is.”
